Paintings of the Hudson River School
January 25th – February 13th, 1932
15 Easr 57th Street
NEW YORK
FOREWORD
For some time we have had in mind a series of exhibitions illustrating the developments of art in this country during the past one hundred years.
We are all of us more or less familiar with the so-called Colonial period of portrait painters, having had many opportunities to study them at close range during recent years, but there is one period in the progress of American art which has been repeatedly overlooked, but which is, nevertheless, an important link between the very early painters and those of our own day, and not, as some have thought, a thing apart and by itself, leaving no impress on the trend of American art. We refer to that group of artists sometimes affectionately, and sometimes rather slightingly termed, the "Hudson River School." It is at this point that our historical exhibits begin.
In presenting this first exhibition we have but one object in mind, that of acquainting our public, as well as ourselves, with the beginnings of landscape painting in this country, for which purpose the Hudson River School is the logical point from which to start.
We, however, make no claim that these ancestors of our present day landscape painters were men of genius, or that their pictures are masterpieces; but that they were conscientious, sincere workers who loved the region they made their painting ground, and that they performed in a very creditable way, and in accordance to their best lights, is, however, granted by those of us who are at least on speaking terms with their work.
Mr. Royal Cortissoz in his "American Artists" writes: "They (Hudson River School) had a fine sincerity, they had great respect for themselves and their craft, they made 'thorough' their watchword." And again: "It is curious to observe how fine an atmosphere pervades any body of their works. It is an atmosphere of artists who were, after all, as genuinely enthusiastic as any that ever lived, and, in their way, were remarkably accomplished. According to their lights they did what they had to do superlatively well."
The exhibition here presented is historical, and we hope will prove interesting to those who are willing to give a thought to this now far distant period of "representational painting."
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